Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 85 stores from 22 fast food restaurants chains in Gainesville, FL. Hardee's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sonic Drive-In and Panda Express.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
22
Tracked stores
85
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Hardee's and Sonic Drive-In sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - +6.7%
2 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +5.9%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +5.1%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.5%
5 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲1 +1.8%
6 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +1.5%
7 K KFC logo KFC ▼1 -2.2%
8 B Burger King logo Burger King - -3.0%
9 A Arby's logo Arby's - -3.9%
10 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -4.6%
11 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼2 -15.2%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Hardee's
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

85 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (17)
  • Chick-fil-A (7)
  • Wendy's (8)
  • Taco Bell (8)
  • Burger King (6)
  • Hardee's (6)
  • Sonic Drive-In (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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